May 17 New Moon in Taurus

This New Moon is in Taurus who is ruler of Venus and the Moon. Let's celebrate mother Earth and really take notice of her. Let's go barefoot in the grass and feel her between our toes.

The Symbol for Taurus is the head of a bull. When the sun entered Taurus people would begin to harness theirs oxen to plow the earth into neat rows and plant seeds, and enjoy the smells, and sights of the Earth around them. Taurus is associated with productivity, patience, taking things slow, one step at a time. If pushed to far the mooooood (couldn't help myself) can turn stubborn. Nurture yourself and others instead of push.

The part of the body associated with Taurus is the neck and voice.The Element is Earth.Colours associated with Taurus are Pale to medium blue, green, pink, rose, mauve, and burnt orange

Here are some prompts to get you going this New Moon and maybe even lead to an intention for this cycle:

What do you need to express at this point?

How will you be more aware in Nature? When you are out see if you can be aware of all your senses-journal about how you felt

How can you give more time to your body, and your spirit during this cycle? (do some)

How can you ground yourself and slow down during this time? Which parts of your life are moving too fast?

What ideas are you ready to plant and nurture?

Make a gratitude list-or try one for each day-record it in your journal

What do you value or love about yourself?

side note about this New Moon: The exact time for the New Moon is 9:13 PDT so depending on your time zone the New moon could be the 17 or 18.

This is our fourth New Moon together! Wow! Time is flying by. I hope that you are enjoying things so far and that maybe you have learned something or noticed something you hadn't before. As you know I have been tracking my own emotions, feelings (physical and not) since the January New Moon.I try and check in with it as much as I can, but it can be a struggle to get to the journal everyday. Sometimes I just take a note in a calender or facebook, or my phone calender so that I can look back and put them into my moon journal. My goal would be to have something for everyday-but that is still a work in progress.

Now that we have settled in to the new moon/full moon cycle I want you to try and keep track on a more regular basis of how you are doing during the phases of the moon. To me the zodiac information gives me focus, and I have looked into houses, my natal chart, and more, but to me In-Tune with the Moon is more internal. To often we look at the external, so it is time to bring it in. The zodiac, house (etc) information was formed through years and years of observations of selves, society, planets, nature, animals...so lets work on our own observations.

Each new moon lets create an intention (to share or not, it is up to you). Then we will track our observations. You certainly don't have to do this but I think it would be meaningful to discover our own patterns. You could use one word, a sentence, it could span over more than one day using arrows, you could track the weather, a memory. Sometimes I may write a word or two with an asterisk meaning to go back and find that day in my journal to see exactly where I was physically and emotionally at that time. How would you use this information? What other ideas do you have to navigate this terrain as we learn more about ourselves?

For me I have noticed that during the new moon I seem content, and motivated, which seems to last until the first quarter (with some slight ups and downs in between. When the full moon rolls around I seem to have taken a dip-my notes tell me that either I am feeling tired, overwhelmed, or something has happened that has upset me, and once I was overwhelmed but felt empowered, which seems to go up and down until the end of the cycle. So far for me it seems I am reversed to the moon-my dark moon, or time to rest and move inward, looks like it should be around the full moon-which is probably why doing the art page at that time helps relax me, and the new moon is when I feel energized. Now this isn't always the same each month, but over the four I have tracked so far that seems to be the trend.